Howell Township

Howell Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was incorporated on 23 February 1801 from portions of Shrewsbury Township, and it was named for Governor Richard Howell. The township was a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, and it was still 89.9% white in 2000. In 2017, Howell Township had a population of 52,476 people.